Improvement in folding chairs



F. F. PARKER.

FOLDING-CHAIR.

No.181,100, Patented Aug.15, 1876.

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U NIT-ED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

FRANK F. PARKER, OF GARDNER, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN .FOLDING CHAIRS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 181,100, dated August15, 1876; application filed July 22, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK F; PARKER, of Gardner, county of Worcester,and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and ImprovedFolding-Chair Case, of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figures 1 and 2 represent verticallongitudinal sections of my improved folding chair, showing the same,respectively, in open and folded position and of reliable operation; andthe invention consists of a folding chair made of a back section, thatis pivoted by its recessed ends to tixed projecting-pins of the swingingrear-leg section, while the front-leg section is extended above the seatpivoted to the back, and hinged by a lateral cross-piece to staples ofthe rear leg.

in the drawing, A represents the back section of my improved foldingchair; B, the rear-leg section, and G the front-leg section. The backsection is connected by curved inside recesses a, at the lower end tofixed projecting pins 11 of the rear legs B, so that the pins slidereadily when opening and folding the chair from one end of the recessesto the other. The pivot-pins form supporting-points for the chair, theback extending only the length of the recesses below the same.

A second support is given to the chair by the curved front legs 0, thatare pivoted at the upper end to the back section, and connected by across-piece, d, to staples c of the rear legs. The rear legs stretch theseat and swing readily on the cross-piece of the front legs, and alongthe recessed ends of the back section into folded or open position,forming a rigid and steady chair when in open position, and taking up asmall space in folded position.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patcut is- I. As an improvement in folding chairs, thecombination of the back sectioii, having curved recesses near the ends,with the swinging rearleg section, having fixed projecting pins,substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination of the recessed back section, swinging rear-legsection, having fixed pins and holding-staples, and of the front legs,pivoted to the upper part of the back, and by a cross-piece to thestaples of the rear legs, substantially in the manner described, and forthe purpose specified.

FRANK F. PARKER.

Witnesses:

F. A. PARKER, FRANCIS RIoHARnsoN.

